Butch Jones = Bruce Pearl?

[volsman123]

Maybe it's just me, but Butch Jones reminds me a lot of Bruce Pearl. When Pearl took over the basketball team, the excitement level and confidence level of the basketball squad was at pretty much an all-time low. We had been through coaching changes, losing seasons, and a complete lack of confidence the years prior. Then Pearl came in and right away gave us a shot in the arm and reenergized our program. He gave us swagger that we had been missing and confidence and excitement followed soon after. More importantly, he resurrected our fan base and made UT a National Contender.

Now Butch has come in during a similar situation. An all-time football low. The swagger and confidence is coming back. I honestly haven't seen this much excitement locally and nationally surrounding UT in a long time. Coach Jones, like Bruce Pearl, seems to genuinely love our community and traditions. So far, he reminds me of the job that Pearl did with our lifeless basketball team.

Let's just hope he can be as successful (for the record, I think he will) on the field.

And uses better judgement when inviting guests to his BBQ's

I agree 100 percent!

 

[Weezer]

Yeah, inviting recruits to a BBQ is totally the worst possible violation of ncaa rules. Death penalty material---IMO.

For the ten-millionth time, it wasn't the BBQ, it was the lying about the BBQ. Stupidity was his downfall.

 

[Weezer]

Lack of SEC recruiting? When's the last time you seen a class like this so early?? And your worried about dt's??? It's a shame we have fans like you that are never happy. Go back to CDD, he did such a fabulous job of recruiting talent. And throwing stats out like head 2 head upsets? He has never coached at major program and has still yet to coach a game at one. So quite whining about not having any DT's in this class. He'll build it and they will come.

Yes, the class looks good right now. How much changes between now and when it matters, we'll see. If we don't get some DTs, we're screwed. The lines are your foundation. Can't build on a weak foundation.

 

[Weezer]

As far as Tennessee's D vs O, I think you need to look at it with both eyes, not one. Consider:
1. For 2013, the DL is one of the most experienced areas of the team, where we have senior DTs McCullers and Couch. DEs Smith & Walls are juniors.
2. Of the 12 4-star verbal commits for 2014, 7 of them play defense - all either LBs or DBs. The opinion that CBJ thinks he can win in the SEC without D can therefore be rejected.
3. Our Achilles Heel on D the past few years has been in the secondary, not on the DL. I don't know Jancek's philosophy about D, but many years when the Vols had a great D, LBs and sometimes even DBs, not the DLs, led the team in tackles. This is where you must have talent.

The true Achille's Heel of this team the past few years has been the d-line play. Lack of getting to the QB has left him able to pic our secondary apart. Yeah, our DBs haven't been the greatest, but they haven't had help from the d-line either.